Pluralizing global urbanism
Replacing the God-Trick with Goddess Tactics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13007656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann El Khoury (0000-0001-9268-1648, Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 291-295 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogues in Human Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2043-8206 • E-ISSN: 2043-8214 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2043820616676567 |
| OpenAlex | W2570673061 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
We are in the midst of an exciting and turbulent time for global urban enquiry, with the ground shifting rapidly. This response reflects on van Meeteren et al.’s provocation as a stimulating paper with prospects for advancing an important dialogue among scholars engaged in research on global urbanization, from various approaches. My paper makes a number of interrelated arguments. First, that the apparent disenfranchisement experienced by global city researchers in the face of postcolonial critiques and other challenges may be more a function and reflection of the rapidly changing contours of empirical–epistemological developments than the authors may allow. Second, an overlooking of relevant global cities research arguments in postcolonial critiques may have as much to do with the practical and perennial problem of long publishing lead times as it does with straw man arguments and indiscriminate truisms. Third, in considering the authors proposal for a more engaged rather than polemical pluralism, my reflection briefly discusses the value of adding a more feminine mode of engagement that sees the strategic deployment of what I call ‘Goddess Tactics’ (contra ‘God-Trick’) in service of a more plural and genuinely global urban epistemology
Epistemology · Function (biology · Hegemony · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urbanism · Value (mathematics · Global Urban Networks and Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance
World City Network
Realism and Social Science
The Point Is to Change It’
Can the straw man speak? An engagement with postcolonial critiques of ‘global cities research’
Building a better theory of the urban
Postcolonial theory and the specter of capital
Postcolonial Theory and the Spectre of Capital
On the Postcolony
A Realist Theory of Science
Nothing includes everything
City as Ideology
The 'Urban Age' in Question
Global and world cities
Slumdog Cities
The Nature of Cities
Who's Afraid of Postcolonial Theory
Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology
Situated Knowledges
Who's Afraid of Critical Social Science
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |